Skipper: Unbounded Request Body Read in Admission Webhook Causes Memory Exhaustion DoS

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-54247
StatePUBLISHED
AssignerGitHub_M
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-14 20:16:45 UTC
Updated2026-09-16 17:17:20 UTC
DescriptionSkipper is an HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition. Prior to 0.26.22, Handler in dataclients/kubernetes/admission/admission.go passes the body of requests to the Kubernetes admission endpoint at :9443/admission directly to io.ReadAll(r.Body) without a size limit. An attacker with in-cluster network access and a valid Kubernetes client certificate can send a very large body that causes unbounded memory allocation and an out-of-memory termination of the Skipper process. The disruption is limited to Ingress and RouteGroup admission rather than pod creation or unrelated admission controllers, and Kubernetes normally restarts the process. This issue is fixed in version 0.26.22.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 4.3 MEDIUM from [email protected]

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS: 0.002270000 probability, percentile 0.136030000 (date 2026-09-16)

Problem Types: CWE-770 | CWE-770 CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary4.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
3.1CNADECLARED4.3MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Zalando Skipper affected < 0.26.22 Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
github.com/zalando/skipper/commit/c3d156c6caaefecc9a46774c0f9c3c70b97160b4 [email protected] github.com
github.com/zalando/skipper/releases/tag/v0.26.22 [email protected] github.com
github.com/zalando/skipper/security/advisories/GHSA-cwxq-rc9x-2jvv [email protected] github.com
github.com/zalando/skipper/pull/4053 [email protected] github.com
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